On London

The weekend before Labour Day we ventured out into a city busy enjoying what in the UK we’d call a bank holiday weekend.

Two blocks down from our house, our road meets the major shop-lined thoroughfare of College Street, but today the junction was mostly closed off by a large stage that was being set up.

College Street itself was closed to traffic, so Harry took advantage of the opportunity to scoot near the tram lines. Weirdly I haven’t noticed any other kids on scooters, so he gets some admiring glances.

Later we took the streetcar (tram) down to the Toronto Harbourfront Centre (yes Canadians spell their words properly!) where we had some fun on the Wave Deck then wandered aimlessly through “North America’s premier celebration of Yiddish and Jewish culture”.

Toronto’s airshow was also happening nearby, which added some interesting background noise and occasional screaming flypasts.

Also this weekend we explored High Park where Lily made first contact with a friendly Canadian girl. I didn’t overhear their conversation but Lily came back away saying “That girl’s a vegetarian and she doesn’t believe in god either” so they obviously got straight into the big moral issues.

The girl left and Lily couldn’t remember her name, so we carried on to the small park zoo which contains bisons, deer, llamas & peacocks. We walked and scooted for another hour or so, encountering geese, a chipmunk, and a group of little sparrows which seem to be almost as prevalent as pigeons.

Lily was speculating which sparrows were the mummy and daddy. I suggested they were probably all cousins, so now every time she sees them she shouts in excitement “it’s the cousins!”.